Guidance Search
The Department of Labor provides this guidance search tool as a single, searchable location where users may search for guidance issued by any of the Department’s agencies, including significant guidance documents under Executive Order 12866. Individual guidance documents are maintained on the various agency websites, and if you know what agency you are looking for, you may also find guidance by navigating directly to that agency’s website. The Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register, which are not maintained by the Department, also include some of the Department’s interpretations of law and similar material.
OMB’s Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance Practices establishes policies and procedures for the development, issuance, and use of significant guidance documents by Executive Branch departments, including requiring that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor. Petitions should identify the specific guidance document by name and include your reason(s) for the request.
On January 20, 2021, President Biden issued the “Executive Order on Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation.” In response, the Department issued a final rule January 27, 2021 to rescind its August 28, 2020 rule on guidance documents.
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Whether section 5(g) of Puerto Rico Act. No. 17 (approved April 17, 1931) as amended is preempted under section 514(a) of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
Whether the National Automatic Sprinkler Industry Welfare Fund (the Fund) is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and/or a multiple employer welfare arrangement as described in section 3(40) of title I of ERISA.
Customer service technicians employed by a manufacturer of electronic equipment and machinery. Exemptions 13(a)(1)
Baseline audiograms must be established even if medical problem exists. - [1910.95]
The compliance of a thermoreactor product with OSHA standards. - [1910.107]
Whether the Master Employers Trust, established in 1977 for the purpose of providing comprehensive and total dental health care to participating employers, their employees, and eligible dependents, is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and/or a multiple employer welfare arrangement under section 3(40) of ERISA, as amended by the Act of January 14, 1983 (Pub. L. 97-473).
Extent to which safety mats provide for compliance with OSHA regulations for machine guarding. - [1910.212; 1910.219]
Whether the proposed Transfer Employee Severance Pay Plan of the San Francisco Newspaper Agency (the Transfer Plan) is an employee pension benefit plan (pension plan) within the meaning of section 3(2)(A) of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 or a severance pay plan which is not a pension plan under Labor Department regulation 29 C.F.R. §2510.3-2.
Whether the Euro-clear system, a central clearance system for internationally traded securities operated by the Brussels office of Morgan Guaranty, which accepts for deposit securities that are expected to be traded in international markets and allows the securities to be transferred, loaned, or pledged by bookkeeping entry without physical delivery of securities, is a "foreign clearing agency which acts as a securities depository" within the meaning of Department of Labor regulation 29 CFR §2550.404b-1(a)(2)(ii)(C).
Whether the Cooper-Jarrett, Inc., Retirement Plan for Non-Bargaining Employees violated the notification requirements of the Labor Department’s suspension of benefits plan regulation (29 CFR 2530.203-3), by suspending the retirement benefits for certain employees who continued working for their employer past their normal retirement age, which was prior to the effective date of the regulation, January 1, 1982), without making actuarial adjustments to their benefits or notifying the participants of these facts by the time these participants retired (whether before, on, or after the effective date of the regulation).
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